Publications
Explore publications by faculty and staff.
The results sourced below were populated by EBSCO. If you have any questions about our search criteria, please contact Jeffry Porter (jeffry.porter@millersville.edu).
MOTHERS OF THE GRAND HOUSE: RACE, MOTHERHOOD, AND MEMORY IN PUERTO RICAN HISTORICAL FICTION.
Faculty Author(s): Rivera-López, Keishla
Student Author(s): -
Department: ENGL
Publication: Hispanofila
Year: 2020
Abstract: A literary criticism of a book "The House on the Lagoon" by Rosario Ferré is presented. Topics include Ferré is the first female Puerto Rican writers to explore and celebrate female sexuality; Ferré's revisionist novel is often celebrated for its feminist approach, its representation of afro-Puerto Rican motherhood and womanhood reproduces racist and patriarchal notions about the Black maternal body; and afro-Puerto Rican women as overly sexual and objects of sexual pleasure.
Link: MOTHERS OF THE GRAND HOUSE: RACE, MOTHERHOOD, AND MEMORY IN PUERTO RICAN HISTORICAL FICTION.